Radiation Hazard
Posted on 03/12/2010 7:21:20 PM PST by Cindy
Note: The following news brief is a quote:
http://www.timesnow.tv/Nuclear-plant-supervisor-found-dead/articleshow/4340361.cms
Nuclear plant supervisor found dead
11 Mar 2010, 1647 hrs IST, AGENCIES
The supervisor of the Rawatbhata Nuclear plant in Kota was found dead on Thursday (March 11). His body was recovered from his service quarters. Plant authorities got suspicious after the supervisor did not report for duty for two consecutive days and broke open his quarters. The cause of death is not clear and police are investigating the matter.
Hat Tip: Freeper Oorang’s post.
Looked for a picture of Homer Simpson managing the nuclear power plant outsourced to India, but I couldn’t find one.
Radiation Sickness?
If it is we will never know about it. If it isn’t a natural death, a more sinister idea is that he was smuggling spent fuel to someone.
This is very odd....Didn’t a similar incident happen in Russia a few months ago?? The guy disappeared from a nuke plant?? Hmmmmmm Hope there’s not any Uranium missing
People who work in radioactive enviormennts such as power plants to ger higher than normal exposure levels to radiation. If you go to any lab that has radioactive materials(or weapons) you always wear a film badge
or dosimeter. But you cannot walk out of a plant with radioactive material with setting some sort alarm.
Where does uranium come from in the first place? Do they get it from uranus?
How about in India?
the list seems to be getting longer...
Hmmm.
I am not to sure but I assume that they follow the same protocols. If the guy was smuggling plutonium he would have a very short lifespan being exposed to the gamma rays for a long time.
LOL....no I would be alot richer if it did......HAHAHAHA
Uranium Ore then refined by superheating/supercooling and centrifuge......
Talk about strip mining.
It scary because you need clearance to work at these facilities.
Thanks Cindy.
No, that's where your head is
....sorry it was a setup, don't blame me
The ole’ chart is quite a conundrum. Iridium comes from Iridious dont’cha know.
Actually, there is an alarm at the exits of every nuclear facility(both private and at federal installations) that goes off when there is a presence of radiocative material. The death should be looked into.
When the alarm goes off, the person is met by people wearing suits and is then “decontaminated”.
http://cbs3.com/local/sharif.mobley.yemen.2.1556982.html
Al-Qaeda Suspect From NJ Worked At 6 Nuke Plants
HADDONFIELD, N.J. (AP)
An American seized in Yemen in a sweep of suspected al-Qaida members had been a laborer at six U.S. nuclear power plants, and authorities are investigating whether he had access to sensitive information or materials that would be useful to terrorists.
Sharif Mobley, 26, worked for contractors at plants in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Maryland from 2002 to 2008, mostly hauling materials and setting up scaffolding, plant officials said.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission spokesman Neil Sheehan said Friday that investigations are under way into which areas Mobley entered. But he noted that areas containing nuclear fuel are tightly controlled, and that a laborer typically would not have access to security information or other sensitive matters.
The plants are also checking areas where Mobley worked to ensure everything is in order, said NRC spokeswoman Diane Screnci.
Yes - thought of the same news item.
There’s been a series of “incidents.”
The mysterious disappearance of Shahram Amiri, an award-winning Iranian nuclear scientists who vanished while on a religious pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia 12/9/2009
Chennai: S Ananthanarayanan, a Scietific Officer at the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research(IGCAR), who had gone missing since February 15, was found dead at a railway track at suburban Guduvancheri on Friday. 2/26/2010
Lachlan Cranswick, 41, disappeared from his home in Deep River, Ontario on January 18. He had been working at the high security Chalk River nuclear reactor before he went missing. 03/01/2010
Another case of a scientific officers from a nuclear power plant in the country disappearing mysteriously has come to light...In June last year, L Mahalingam, a scientist employed at the Kaiga atomic power station in Karnataka had gone missing and was later found dead in a river. (15 days ago)
Lokanathan Mahalingam had access to some of the country’s most sensitive nuclear information and the government has ordered an inquiry into his disappearance.
Mr Mahalingam, 47, worked at the Kaiga Atomic Power Station in Karnataka, close to Project Seabird, a major military base. 6/12/2009
No, that is urcranium.
GMTA!
PING that for reference.
Mahalingam’s death was due to drowning at least thats what the investigating officers said.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.